Contemplation of impermanence.

 

  Human nature and the world, all phenomena are impermanent, so selfless, always in a state of change.  

However, people only notice, only to see the big change, the change good or bad, favorable or unfavorable (in his mind) but who cares less, attention to small changes, because health. Do not be aware of the law of impermanence, so when major changes occur in life, people are very hard to accept, easy to be "shocked" crisis, mental depression, misery.

Those who can calm, unmoved by the events, changes in life, especially when things happen like unwanted ailments, afflictions, happy family breakdown, loss of love, career, his identity, status, etc. ... But if someone who understands the law of impermanence, always aware that nothing is permanent, eternal, everything changes, compile, then when the event occurred will not fall into crisis.

 

 

Throughout a person's life definitely did not see nobody ephemeral events, the only difference is large or small, more or less that's it. So the perception of impermanence, psychological preparation, deep reflection is essential, so that when we come very often have equanimity, wake up, limit or avoid the pain brain, insecurity.

 

There are people who live near the end of life was not aware of impermanence. I went to visit sick relatives in hospital, listening to an old woman told doctors are treating her that: "What I stand up sit down too hard? In the past such speculation, sitting as standing want to stand up, no need to hand combat, where the slow hard as it is now. " Doctors do not rush her answer that question: "How old is she then?" She said: "When I was younger the children." The doctor asked: "So now how old is your son?". "Now my children have family already. My youngest is almost 40 ". The doctor smiled and said: "She is now 71 years old, the ill, where as in younger longer."

 

And he died young of age of 69 years I told people that he wanted to push the car to go peddling plants. Listen he said shaking his head dissuade anyone. My old man was deaf to severe high blood pressure, previous stroke but still almost no attention to their health, or their not old and the body as a machine coming to an moss. He told me: "In the new liberation (in 1975) I pedal trishaw tirelessly day and night. Then the poor, efforts to make money to feed their families ... ". Every day he still holds the old habits, drinking coffee two gauge morning and evening, drinking a beer while eating. Though doctors advised him not to drink alcohol and coffee, but he did not listen.

 

Old and young that his thought is very dangerous! Only after five to seven years that I was not alone anymore but is let alone decades. In fact, the people change every moment, every heartbeat, moments, to several years, some fifty years there has been major changes right: changes in age, physical, psychological, emotional ethical concepts, lifestyle ... After some time passed, the children grow up, become adults old man, old people become sick, who also lost etc. ... People who live in conditions and circumstances well little attention to impermanence, until the big event happens in crisis, not acceptable, discontent, anguish.

 

People often say the devil impermanence just as we are about to leave this world, but in fact very often the devil is always present everywhere at all times, not just when people are dying. The only real evil is impermanent visualization of impermanence rule, a rule governing the world.

 

It's not very often that makes us suffer, but that reason is because no new impermanent suffering, craving, clinging, not accepting impermanence, we suffer when very often happens.

 

Impermanence always take place uninterrupted but we do not see. Only when it snatched away what we love, want to hold, want to endure with me I will see. We talk very often steals the love, health, money, wealth, fame ... of us, but really did not get what impermanence of us, because capital is impermanent nature, are characteristic of those, only now we do not see, do not know it.

 

The nature of man is selfless, not conditioned living entity, not the sovereign, so human impermanence. Other things, too, asset wealth, status, fame, love, and career trait is impermanent by nature self. They are so charming that conditionality should options change, mutate like this or like others, is absent in this place and appear in another place. We find that we have lost it then they are not real but in fact there are (only temporarily exists in some time) and did not die out, they move from one form to another, from one form to another form. For example, what is your current home, but after a few dozen years as their children or other people; then it can also become company, office, shops, cafes ... and not the house. In the condition, in this situation with the staff, so the coast, so it's like there, like; the conditions and other circumstances change, change of conditions, it is also changing, not as the initial state.

 

In fact, if there is no impermanence of life, no world, no man, no history. Human world, human life has been like today is thanks to impermanence. History has experienced much change, without change there is no life, no life activities, world without movement, movement. This one saw, but who also understand the fear of impermanence itself, it is because of craving and clinging.

 

Once there was a king while watching Jiangshan hydrangeas cried. Courtiers stood to ask the reason, the king replied: "I cried because I could not live to enjoy the privilege and wealth, to keep his inheritance to collecting thousands of great disasters, and to have the opportunity to watch Young beautiful river Leopard build his. " Courtiers heard the king said, laughing: "Your Majesty think about it, if everyone lived forever do not die, and lower thy spirit be standing today. The reason there are today Majesty's throne because according premise upon impermanence of life and death. If money to live for today, then what chance do Majesties King instead. "

 

 

People have old, new earth to die for the next generation in; new food resource for children to use. If people do not die of old generation after the land whence taken, where I work as the first person to hold all; insufficient resources to use.

 

Impermanent world have recently changed appearance. People have very often are born, grow up, growing up to become more social components (engineers, doctors, teachers ...), becoming the mother, father, grandparents in family etc. ... Because of impermanence that humans and the ancient world, humans and the world today, there are people and the world to come. Because of impermanence, there is no stopping that want to change things in the natural world manifold, diversified and rich.

 

Because of impermanence should have become new, people have the opportunity to learn, practice, practice in order to progress, cognitive development, thinking, wisdom, moving into the position of the source, from the bad into good people, ordinary people into extraordinary people, from the ordinary saints, Buddha.

 

Impermanence is a rule in the interdependent world, selfless, so can not run very often. Want to overcome the pain of the suffering that we supposedly brought by impermanence (old age, sickness, death, lost love, career, fame, family ...), nothing more aware of it and Everything is calculated selfless things, remove cling, cling, reduce craving. It's psychological, cognitive needed. Active life, should live according to the law of dependent arising upon, cause and effect, select the karmic healing that sow to reap retribution good in life, to embrace impermanence (these changes, moving variables) come under the positive direction for me. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/6/2014.